worn-outs

Updated: May 20, 2025

Needlewomen were given work cutting up the worn-outs of grown-ups and making them over into astonishingly good suits or dresses for youngsters. "We've really turned the rink into a kind of department store," said the lady. "Come into our boot department. We had some leather left in Belgium that the Germans did not requisition, so we bought it and that gave more Belgians work in the shoe factories.

Frederick Palmer - My Year of the War: Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and: the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the: First Time in its Complete Form

Reams of the Carleton papers are covered with descriptive lists of claimed and counter-claimed niggers Julius Caesars, Jupiters, Venuses, Dianas, and so on, who were either 'stout wenches' and 'likely fellows' or 'incurably lazy' and 'old worn-outs.

William Charles Henry Wood - The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton